Google Map Longitute and Latitude!

Discussion in 'Google API' started by nickharper, Oct 17, 2007.

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    Hi,

    I just wondered which ways people use to get the L & L of places when they use Google Maps?

    I have tried with the postcode but it is slightly off so it will need to move over to the right?

    Thanks

    Nick
     
    nickharper, Oct 17, 2007 IP
  2. lv211

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    http://geocoder.us/

    I use this perl code. The regular expression strips the excess crap it would normally return. Or you can use Google's geocoder service http://www.developer.com/lang/jscript/article.php/3615681 .

    Peace.

    #!/usr/bin/perl

use LWP::Simple;
use URI::Escape;
use Data::Dumper;
use strict;
use warnings;

my $where =  "5700 Occidental Road, Santa Rosa, CA 95401";

my $addr = uri_escape($where);

my @result = get("http://rpc.geocoder.us/service/csv?address=$addr" );
my $loc;

foreach (@result){
	if ($_ =~ m{(.*?),(.*?),}){
        $loc = "$1" . "," . " $2";
        print $loc;
        }
        else {
        print "Not working";
        }
}
    Code (markup):
     
    lv211, Oct 19, 2007 IP